(CEHURDES/IFEX) – CEHURDES strongly condemns the government’s dismissal of two journalists affiliated with the state-owned Radio Nepal. CEHURDES urges the government to cease targeting journalists. On 22 May 2003, two Radio Nepal journalists, Uttam Hamal and Murari Prasad Sharma, were sacked by the government on the instruction of Information and Communications Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey. […]
(CEHURDES/IFEX) – CEHURDES strongly condemns the government’s dismissal of two journalists affiliated with the state-owned Radio Nepal. CEHURDES urges the government to cease targeting journalists.
On 22 May 2003, two Radio Nepal journalists, Uttam Hamal and Murari Prasad Sharma, were sacked by the government on the instruction of Information and Communications Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey. The journalists were dismissed for filing news reports about a peaceful movement launched by five opposition parties against the King’s political actions of 4 October 2002. The chief executive of Radio Nepal, Sailendra Raj Sharma, had received a letter from the minister asking him to dismiss the two journalists immediately.
Both journalists have been working with Radio Nepal for the last eight years and hold senior positions in the Nepal Press Union, a legally-recognised trade union of Nepalese journalists.
